Familiarity looks upon the absence of the known as an "emptiness" to be avoided at all costs.

The wish -- and the work it takes to make real and lasting changes (in your life) -- is incompatible with wanting to be comfortable.

Familiarity looks upon the absence of the known as an 'emptiness' to be avoided at all costs.

If knowledge alone were enough to fill the empty heart, then all of the ideas with which we have filled ourselves -- about happiness, love, and contentment -- would have long ago brought an end to our seeking. See the ocean: it does not run after its own waves, as it knows they must return to rest in her depths. And so it is for us: whether we speak of joy, peace, strength, or love itself --...

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Part I: Count the number of empty answers you carry around with you - that when you toss them at life's storms become a part of their turbulence - and you will begin to understand not only your unabating fear of these unwanted challenges, but also the too real sense of self-poverty you experience in the face of them. Part II: Once we have seen that our imagined saviors are powerless to relea...

Part 1 Unseen by those who feel empty, resisted by those always in a rush, feared by those who resist change, is this inescapable spiritual fact concerning emptiness, anxiety, or fear: our lives are full of what we fill them with! Part 2 When it comes to desires, they can either be a part of your world, serving as intended or, you can be a servant of their world, indentured to time, and des...

The fear of having nothing to do is how the level of self that is nothing occupies itself so that it can stay busy resisting its own emptiness.

Topics covered: A new insight comes when we realize that we've gone as far as we can go with thought; We have an obstruction in our minds that we don't know about because we've already named the condition that caused the blockage; As above, so below; we are part of a celestial circulation system; Without emptiness, there would be no circulation and therefore no life; There's always a moment of empty space between resistance and the cause...

Fear is the bitter fruit that grows out of this unchallenged belief: unless we struggle to satisfy our own desires, we shall never know fulfillment.

Distractions never show themselves as empty sea-shells when the promise of their shape first catches the wandering eye. Perhaps that’s why -- as we stoop down, and stop to pocket yet one more weathered prize -- we never really notice -- let alone step into -- the vast sea that has cast them onto shore.

Unless our "productivity" in life serves to increase our soul's receptivity to the living Light - then all that we make for ourselves is an emptiness that passing time never fails to reveal.